Do you pick him up quickly when he does this?

My daughter is also 3 months old and would occasionally do that. One night she did it and I couldn't get to her right away, and about 5 minutes later, she completely stopped, fell back asleep and slept for another about 6 hours. I just chalk it up to a nightmare, but my doctor doesn't seem concerned about it since she goes right back to sleep.

Yes, this is true. Babies can wake up in the middle of the night just like adults, but it doesn't mean that they need to get up. Only get him if he cries longer than a few minutes....don't leave him be for more than 5 minutes. Sometimes a few minutes is all they need to find out how to comfort themselves and fall back asleep. It may take about a week or so, but once he realizes that he needs to do this on his own, he will stop making the loud cries for you.

Babies can have nightmares, I know its weird... like what do they have to be scared of. My younger sister when she was a baby she started developing these nightmares at abour 8weeks old. After extensive testing to find out the problem (as she would wake up at around 12 and scream non stop for hours) they worked out that it was her waking up from a bad dream and frightened and screaming. What eventually worked for her was not touching her because when she woke up screaming she was still half asleep and when she got picked up then she would wake completely and not fall back to sleep, but when left she would stop after a bit and then continue sleeping. This may not be your child's problem but for my sister this lasted until she was in her 2's.

This is probrably gonna sound silly 'cause every1 else is surgesting it's nightmares but could it be Colic??


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Well my baby has colic and she doesn't have those symptoms I spoke abour earlier, she wakes up completely and will keep on crying and screaming until she is burped fed and burped some more ... she feeds every couple of hours but with her she starts of cooing for a bit and if ignored than will scream until somebody respnds, thats why i suggested nightmares for her baby.

I wasnt trying to be nasty so please dont take my post the wrong way i was just suggesting Colic that was all, i wasnt saying that you were wrong.

Courtney some times not often wakes up in the night crying then i get her out and put her in our bed and then shes fine.

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